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Solzhenitsyn is buried

Putin leads tribute to writer who exposed Gulags

RUSSIAN prime minister Vladimir Putin led hundreds of mourners paying last respects yesterday to Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the dissident writer who chronicled the horror of the Soviet prison camps.

Wed, 06 Aug, 2008

Putin leads Solzhenitsyn mourners

Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin led mourners paying tribute to Alexander Solzhenitsyn as the author, dissident and patriot lay in state inside the Russian Academy of Sciences today.

Tue, 05 Aug, 2008

Brave words broke taboos and shook Soviet empire

WHEN Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich appeared in the literary magazine Novy Mir back in November 1962, taboos were shattered. Secrets were unearthed. And the Soviet Union was shaken to its foundations.

Tue, 05 Aug, 2008

Russian dissident author Solzhenitsyn dies

Tributes were being paid today to Nobel-prize winning author and Russian dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who has died aged 89.

Mon, 04 Aug, 2008

Solzhenitsyn in hospital with high blood pressure

Nobel prize-winning author Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who chronicled the Soviet Gulag, has been taken into hospital with high blood pressure, his foundation said in Moscow today.

Sat, 04 Jan, 2003